Glass slipper



(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 1. H. J. SMITH.

GLASS SLIPPER.

No. 351,216. PatentedOot. 19, 1886.

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H. J. SMITH.

GLAS$ SLIPPER.

No. 351,216. Patented oct. 19, 1886.

UNi'rn Y STATES HENRY J. SMITH, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO BRYCE BROTHERS AND GEORGE DUNCAN & SONS, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,216, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed May 19. 1886. Serial No. 202,663.

T all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HENRY J. Snrrn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pitlsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Penn sylvania, have invented new and useful improvements in Glass Slippers, of which the following is a specification. 4

My invention relates to the manufacture of ornamental glass slippers, and the purpose [0 thereof is to improve and simplify the method of forming the same, as fully hereinafter set forth, the invention consisting in the novel method of manipulating and forming glass slippers or other similar articles, as pointed r5 out in the claims annexed to this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the partlyfinishcd slipper as itis taken from the mold. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a front elevation. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the finished article. Fig. 5 isa view of the form- 'er. Fig. 6 is a plan view illustrating the manner of using the former. Fig, 7 is a iew of the mold and straight plun e; f f i othe slippenblank. L a

In the said drawings, the numeral 1. denotes the sole, and the numeral 2 the upper, of the slipper, the same being preferably ornamented by a combined hob nail and rosette pattern,

which form, however, no necessary part of the present invention.

As shown in Figs. 1, 2. and 3, the slipper consists of a single integral piece of glass, Winch 1S P O CB by being pressed in amold 55 with a straight plunger, thereby producing a dish shaped article having vertical sides, whereof the portions 3 form in the finished 3.1131016 the upper forward part, and the portlon at the toe of the slipper, the opposite an- 0 gular portions, 3, being while heated bent over toward each other, and attached at the edges up to the point 5, above which the edges diverge, forming the opening 6. The tool is at the same time bent inward and united upon each side to the vertical edges 7 of the side pieces, 3.

In finishing the slipper from the blank, (shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3,) Iemploy aformer, 8, (shown in Figs. 5 and 6.) This former is in the nature of a last conforming to the shape of the forward part of the slipper. This former is provided with a handle, 9, of suit- (No model.)

able length. After the blank shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 is pressed it is placed in the gloryhole and heated to a proper point. It is then placed on a stand, and the former 8, also heated to substantially the same point, is inserted, and the sides 3and toe-piece 4 are then pressed or forced down upon the former, thereby uniting the edges and making the complete slipper.

The mold 10, in which the slipper-blank is pressed, corresponds with the general outline of the slipper, save that the sides are vertical, or substantially so. Its inner face may be provided with any ornamental pattern, which is to be impressed upon the outer surface of the slipper.

Thepl unger 11 conforms to the general shape of the mold, and is provided upon its sides with the shoulder 12, for forming the upper edges of the verticalsides, and with the points 13, which form the cleft between the toepiece 4. and the vertical edges 7 of the side pieces, 3.

Ilay no claim herein to the method, broadly, of making a glass shoe or slipper with its Vamp or upper separated, and then bending the separated portions of the vamp together.

The method claimed differs from the foregoing in having the toe-piece separated from the side pieces and then bent down, whereby the toe is completely closed and given the appearance of a tip to the shoe, as shown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is i 1. The method herein set forth of forming ornamental glass slippers and similar articles, consisting in first pressing out the blank in a straight mold, and then heating and bending the vertical sides and separate toe-piece down upon a former, substantially as described.

2. The new article of manufacture described, consisting of an ornamental glass slipper formed in a single piece, the toe-piece and vertical sides of the upper being united, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses- HENRY J. SMITH.

Witnesses:

J AMES llIoD. BR YOE, O. R. ToUDY. 

